Wim Henderickx from Nokia discusses the company's assessment of its product portfolio against TM Forum operational flows and explains Nokia's "divide and conquer" approach to autonomous network operations, which breaks complex problems into manageable domains with expert systems that can collaborate across vendor boundaries using industry-standard protocols to achieve level four autonomous operations.

Jean-Phillippe Goyet from Blue Planet (a Ciena Company) presents their two-pronged AI approach that builds out-of-the-box AI applications and agents while enabling customer enrichment through their three-layer agentic framework, which includes an agentic core for orchestrating AI agents, agentic tooling for data and API access, and application layers that optimize existing processes and create new capabilities like natural language-driven 5G slicing and orchestration.

Scott Robohn from Solutional explains how AI is changing network operations and helps organizations navigate vendor claims to identify realistic AI and machine learning solutions for network automation and operational improvements.

Wim Henderickx from Nokia discusses the company's AI for networking vision and approach to achieving level four autonomy through specialized expert systems, multi-vendor collaboration standards, and strategies to address industry skills shortages including natural language interfaces and Software-as-a-Service solutions.

Vijoy Pandey from Cisco Systems explains how the company participates in the AGNTCY open-source project alongside Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat to create an architectural framework enabling autonomous agents to collaborate across vendors through discovery, composition, secure communication, and performance evaluation capabilities.

Ben Hickey and Sanil Nambiar from IBM present Network Intelligence, which aims to create self-operating networks that prevent trust issues, optimize spending, and boost network utilization from 40% to 95% while enabling new services.

Helen Xenos from Ciena presents the company's comprehensive AI infrastructure solutions at OCP, including their industry-first single carrier 1.6 terabit per second coherent solution, ultra-low power metro DCI with 400 gig and 800 gig coherent pluggables, photonic line systems for data center racks, and capabilities from their Nubis Communications acquisition for linear red drivers and XT optical engines supporting both scale-up and scale-out applications.

Kishore Atreya from Marvell presents the company's co-packaged optics reference platform featuring a liquid-cooled 10U system with 16 6.4T light engines that uses silicon photonics technology to convert electrical signals to optical signals, while addressing the industry challenge of managing over 36,000 fibers when scaling to 32 units per rack for AI applications.

Archana Khetan from Ericsson outlines the company's three-phase AI journey to transform their NetCloud platform into an AI-native system that enables autonomous network operations, addressing enterprise needs through predictive insights, generative user engagement, and agentic automation while expanding from SD-WAN and SASE to broader deployment scenarios including private 5G.

Eddie Ramirez from Arm outlines the AI RAN Alliance's expansion to nearly 70 members and its three-pronged strategy focusing on RAN efficiency, dynamic network configuration, and dual RAN-AI workload management, while showcasing Arm's CPU and Neoverse capabilities for edge AI applications.